Senior Analyst, Center for Inclusive Growth - Social Impact Global Programs

at  MasterCard

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Analyst, Center for Inclusive Growth - Social Impact Global Programs
Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Overview
The Center for Inclusive Growth is the social impact hub at Mastercard. The organization seeks to ensure that the benefits of an expanding economy accrue to all segments of society. Through actionable research, impact data science, programmatic grants, stakeholder engagement and global partnerships, the Center advances equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. The Center’s work is at the heart of Mastercard’s objective to be a force for good in the world.
The Senior Analyst, Social Impact, will be responsible for supporting the Director of Global Programs, including in project management, reporting and communications, and programmatic activities. The job requires an ability to work both independently and in collaboration with colleagues, both at the Center for Inclusive Growth and within the business, across markets. Work includes supporting grantees, program development and management, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for the International Markets (IMK) team, and engaging in ad hoc projects.

Role:

• Provide project management support
• Establish relationships across the organization to facilitate collaboration and information sharing
• Support grantees and grants management as needed
• Support measurement, evaluation and learning (MEL)
• Manage ad hoc initiatives in support of the Global Programs team
• Support development of new grants
• Provide general administrative support as needed
• Help with writing and formatting papers, powerpoints and other stakeholder collateral that will be used internally and externally

All About You

• Demonstrated project management execution skills with strong ability to manage deliverables and deadlines;
• Proven skills in relationship management and managing multiple stakeholders with professionalism and maturity
• Experience responding to routine and complex inquiries in a complex and timely manner
• Demonstrated ability to work quickly and respond to urgent, unanticipated requests
• Superior written and oral communication skills in English
• Great attitude, thirst for learning and intellectual curiosity, passion and purpose
• Interest in entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, digitalization, and gender programming
• Understanding the relationship between business and community needs, key influencers, policy makers, nonprofit leaders
• Curiosity in how we aim to create an inclusive and sustainable economy through our social impact effort

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Role:

• Provide project management support
• Establish relationships across the organization to facilitate collaboration and information sharing
• Support grantees and grants management as needed
• Support measurement, evaluation and learning (MEL)
• Manage ad hoc initiatives in support of the Global Programs team
• Support development of new grants
• Provide general administrative support as needed
• Help with writing and formatting papers, powerpoints and other stakeholder collateral that will be used internally and externall

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines